"Sven Bømwøllen Sven Bømwøllen is the first instalment of a series of humorous German computer games released in the 2000s, all concerning the sexual behaviour of the titular character, a black sheep named Sven Bømwøllen, 'Baumwolle' is the German word for cotton. The game is set in Northern Europe, presumably in a country where a North Germanic language is spoken. The player controls ""Sven"", the only black sheep, and, at the same time, apparently the only male sheep of a flock owned by a shepherd called ""Lars Einnicken"". It is Sven's task to mate with the white sheep, which will"
"Cambric Cambric (, or ), or batiste, one of the finest and most dense kinds of cloth, is a lightweight plain-weave cloth, originally from the French commune of Cambrai, woven in greige, then bleached, piece-dyed and often glazed or calendered. Initially it was made of linen; later, the term came to be applied to cotton fabrics as well. Cambric is used as fabric for linens, shirts, handkerchieves, ruffs, lace and needlework. The term ""cambric cloth"" also applies to a stiff, usually black, open-weave cloth typically used for a dust cover on the bottom of upholstered furniture. Chambray, though the same"
"and double sewing cotton and trade in Manchester and Engelskirchen. Baumwollspinnerei Ermen & Engels The Baumwollspinnerei Ermen & Engels is a former cotton mill in Engelskirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. It is now part of the LVR Industrial Museum. Engelskirchen is midway between Köln and Olpe, today served by the A4 autobahn. In 1840 it was a quiet village on the banks of the Agger (river), a tributary of the Sieg (river). In Bergisches Land it is 54 km south east of Barmen (Wuppertal). This put it in the heart of the North European Textile belt. Friedrich Engels from Barmen, was the"
"hem of the skirt in the back) rather than an apron. A woman wearing a dirndl, with white blouse, is usual in Bavaria and rural Austria. They are usually made of light fabric (textile), such as silk or cotton thin, until the early 1990s still often from soft covered by art faserstoffen (such as polyester and satin). They often have fanciful decorations (such as frills, embroidery, or grinding) and are a classic among the women's blouses—here the fashionable combination possibilities are especially varied. The open Spaten—or lapel collar—is another common type of a classic ladies blouse. The blouse jacket or"
"high perishability of linen cloth and the solubility of hide glue. Well-known and relatively well-preserved — though substantially damaged — the most notable examples include Quentin Matsys' ""Virgin and Child with Saints Barbara and Catherine"" (c. 1515-25) and Dirk Bouts' ""Entombment"" (c. 1440-55). In German the technique is known as ""Tüchleinfarben"", meaning “small cloth colours”, or ""Tüchlein"", derived from the German words ""Tüch"" and ""Lein"" (""fabric"" and ""flax""). A binding agent for pigment was made by boiling animal skin mixed with other organic tissue and applied to linen, itself prepared with a thin layer of glue. The linen was ground,"
"the David Bowie song, ""Come And Buy My Toys"" in the lyrics ""You shall own a cambric shirt, you shall work your father's land."" Cambric Cambric (, or ), or batiste, one of the finest and most dense kinds of cloth, is a lightweight plain-weave cloth, originally from the French commune of Cambrai, woven in greige, then bleached, piece-dyed and often glazed or calendered. Initially it was made of linen; later, the term came to be applied to cotton fabrics as well. Cambric is used as fabric for linens, shirts, handkerchieves, ruffs, lace and needlework. The term ""cambric cloth"" also"
"Batiste Batiste is a fine cloth made from cotton, wool, polyester, or a blend, and the softest of the lightweight opaque fabrics. Batiste is a balanced plain weave, a fine cloth made from cotton or linen such as cambric. Batiste was often used as a lining fabric for high-quality garments. Batiste is also used for handkerchiefs (cotton batiste) and lingerie (batiste de soie). In 1901 ""Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language"" defined batiste as ""usual French name for cambric"" or ""applied in commerce to a fine texture of linen and cotton"". ""Cambric"" is a synonym of the French"
"Bengaline Bengaline is a woven silk-and-cotton material which became fashionable for women and children to wear in the 1880s and 1890s. It offered the impression of genuine silk but was made with lesser amounts of silk than cotton. Lizzie Borden stated at her December 1892 inquest that she was wearing a dress made of bengaline silk on the morning she was accused of murdering her father and stepmother. The fabric went out of fashion when completely smooth-surfaced materials became popular. Piqué, coachman's whipcord, diagonal serge, and surah are similar to bengaline silk. Surah was once known in France as silk"
"later pulled down. After repairs, the exchange reopened in 1956. In 1961, a multistory parking garage was built where the rear part of the building had been. Even today, the ""Rules of the Bremen Cotton Exchange"" serve as a useful reference in drawing up contracts and solving disputes in the international cotton market. The ""Bremer Baumwollbörse"" still has over 200 members (2014) but its offices are now in Wachtstraße. Johann Poppe (1837–1915), who had gained a reputation for his skill in designing some of Bremen's large public buildings including the waterworks (1873) and the library (1896), was selected as the"
"Gabardine Gabardine is a tough, tightly woven fabric used to make suits, overcoats, trousers, uniforms, windbreakers and other garments. The word gaberdine or gabardine has been used to refer to a particular item of clothing, a sort of long cassock but often open at the front since at least the 15th century, in the 16th becoming used for outer garments of the poor. The modern use of the term for a fabric rather than a garment dates to Thomas Burberry, who invented the fabric & revived the name in 1879, and patented it in 1888. It has been used with"
"fabric as part of the uniform of soldiers from the former Landgraviate of Hesse and its successors, including the current German state of Hesse, who were called ""Hessians"". The origin of the word ""burlap"" is unknown, though its earliest known appearance is in the late 17th century, and its etymology is speculated to derive from the Middle English ""borel"" (""coarse cloth""), the Old French ""burel"" and/or the Dutch ""boeren"" (""coarse""), in the latter case perhaps interfused with ""boer"" (""peasant""). The second element is the English word ""lap"", ""piece of cloth"". Hessian was first exported from India in the early 19th"
"Presstoff Presstoff (also Preßstoff or Pressstoff) is the German-language term for a type of ""ersatz"" or artificial leather used during the first half of the 20th century. Made of specially layered and treated paper pulp, ""Presstoff"" was durable and easily adapted to be used in place of leather, which under wartime conditions was rationed. First invented in the 19th century, it gained its widest use in Germany during the Second World War. ""Presstoff"" use included but was not limited to binoculars cases and straps, horse tack, bayonet frogs, equipment belts, cap visors etc. In short, ""Presstoff"" could be used in"
"Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei The Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei (""Leipzig Cotton Mill"") is an industrial site in Leipzig, Germany. Parts of this 10-hectare site in the district of Lindenau are used today by art galleries, studios and restaurants. Founded in 1884, the business developed into the largest cotton mill in continental Europe over the next quarter century. During this time, an entire industrial town with over 20 factories, workers' housing, kindergartens and a recreational area, grew in western Leipzig. The mill reached its maximum extent in 1907, with 240,000 spindles processing cotton across a working area of about . Up to 4,000 people worked"
"it was assumed that the plant was a tree, rather than a shrub. This aspect is retained in the name for cotton in several Germanic languages, such as German ""Baumwolle"", which translates as ""tree wool"" (""Baum"" means ""tree""; ""Wolle"" means ""wool""). Noting its similarities to wool, people in the region could only imagine that cotton must be produced by plant-borne sheep. John Mandeville, writing in 1350, stated as fact that ""There grew there [India] a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs"
"Bamboo textile A bamboo textile is cloth, yarn, or clothing that is made from bamboo fibres. While historically used only for structural elements, such as bustles and the ribs of corsets, in recent years, different technologies have been developed that allow bamboo fibre to be used for a wide range of textile and fashion applications. Bamboo yarn can also be blended with other textile fibres such as hemp or spandex. Bamboo is an alternative to plastic, which is renewable and can be replenished at a fast rate. Modern clothing labeled as being made from bamboo is usually rayon. Bamboo fibres"
"a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the edges of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungry."" This aspect is retained in the name for cotton in many European languages, such as German ""Baumwolle"", which translates as ""tree wool"". By the end of the 16th century, cotton was cultivated throughout the warmer regions of Asia and the Americas. The main steps in the production of cloth are producing the fibre, preparing it, converting it to yarn, converting yarn to cloth, and then finishing the cloth."
"for work clothes, such as tirtey (“midweight woollen fabric in twill weave, with a combination of carded woollen yarns in the weft and cotton yarns in the warp. Mostly used for work trousers.”) and buckskin cloth (not leather, but rather a “thick, smooth cotton or woollen fabric”). In 1885 the Zöllner plant, too, burnt down, but unlike the Fink Brothers’ factory, it rose from the ashes and in the years before the First World War, it even underwent an important expansion. It flourished until about 1930, when the Great Depression set in. It was then taken over by Karl Hermann"
"of Marcel Breuer. Eisengarn, meaning ""iron yarn"" in English, is a very strong, durable, waxed cotton material. No iron is actually in the cloth. Fabric made from the yarn is shiny and highly tear-resistant. The material was originally developed in Germany in the mid-19th century and by 1875 was being manufactured in some quantity, however Margaretha Reichardt improved the quality while she was at the Bauhaus and it was used by Marcel Breuer on his tubular steel chairs. Reichardt's improved version of eisengarn was also used as a covering for airplane seats in the 1930s. She also helped develop types"
"teasel and the nap is clipped, a process which is repeated a number of times until the fabric provides good warmth for the weight, and is relatively supple, windproof, and extremely durable. A subclass of the wools known as ""melton"". Loden cape A loden cape is an overcoat of Tyrolean origin, made of a thick, water-resistant woolen material with a short pile, first produced by peasants in Austria. The fabric is derived from the coarse, oily wool of mountain sheep and has a traditional bluish-green colour. The name is derived from Middle High German 'lode' or from Old High German"
"transferred to the manufacturer Stotz & Co AG. Alternative registered trademarks, owned by other commercial organisations used to market, promote or distribute the fabric, include Supermarine and Duuton""3"". The cotton textile is densely woven from an extra long staple fibre (ELS). Although weatherproof, it is not coated or laminated; the combination of a dense weave and the swelling of the fibres when wet provide excellent weatherproofing. ELS cotton fibres are only available from around 2% of the world's entire cotton crop, but due to their naturally long length this creates yarns of superior strength as they can be spun using"
"recognisable. The surrounding fields are cultivated by the settlements."" A woman's ""thob"" (loose fitting robe with sleeves) dated to about 1930 from the village of Beit Daras is part of the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) collection at Santa Fe. The dress fabric is called ""abu hizz ahmar"" (black cotton ground with purple, orange and green stipes of cotton and silk), from Majdal. The only embroidery on the front is below the neck opening. The back panel has three horizontal bands of embroidery, and a local version of the ""khem-el-basha"" (""the pashas tent"") motif along the hem. Bayt Daras"
"Loden cape A loden cape is an overcoat of Tyrolean origin, made of a thick, water-resistant woolen material with a short pile, first produced by peasants in Austria. The fabric is derived from the coarse, oily wool of mountain sheep and has a traditional bluish-green colour. The name is derived from Middle High German 'lode' or from Old High German 'lodo', meaning 'coarse cloth'. To produce loden fabric, strong yarns are woven loosely into cloth which then undergoes a lengthy process of shrinking, eventually acquiring the texture of felt and becoming quite dense. It is then brushed with a fuller's"
"- dynamically expand to form an effective barrier against the elements. Currently the only manufacturer of this specification of cotton textile is the Swiss firm Stotz & Co AG, which spins, twists, weaves and dyes the raw materials, and sells the textile directly under its own branding of etaProof cotton, supplying clothing manufacturers and wholesale textile distributors globally. British production of Ventile eventually ended in the late 20th century but the trademark continued to be used by the British company Talbot Weaving (Chorley) Limited to market their wholesale distribution of etaProof cotton fabrics until 2017 when the trademark ownership was"
"Muslin Muslin ( or ), also mousseline, is a cotton fabric of plain weave. It is made in a wide range of weights from delicate sheers to coarse sheeting. They were imported into Europe from Bengal in the 17th century and were later manufactured in Scotland and England. While English-speakers call it muslin because Europeans believed it originated in the Iraqi city of Mosul, its origins are now thought to have been farther East — in ancient India, and in particular Dhaka, the capital of what is now Bangladesh. Dhaka’s jamdani muslin, with its distinctive patterns woven in layer by"
"Bombazine Bombazine, or bombasine, is a fabric originally made of silk or silk and wool, and now also made of cotton and wool or of wool alone. Quality bombazine is made with a silk warp and a worsted weft. It is twilled or corded and used for dress-material. Black bombazine was once used largely for mourning wear, but the material had gone out of fashion by the beginning of the 20th century. The word is derived from the obsolete French ""bombasin"", applied originally to silk but afterwards to tree-silk or cotton. Bombazine is said to have been made in England"
"crop yields. Bamboo textile A bamboo textile is cloth, yarn, or clothing that is made from bamboo fibres. While historically used only for structural elements, such as bustles and the ribs of corsets, in recent years, different technologies have been developed that allow bamboo fibre to be used for a wide range of textile and fashion applications. Bamboo yarn can also be blended with other textile fibres such as hemp or spandex. Bamboo is an alternative to plastic, which is renewable and can be replenished at a fast rate. Modern clothing labeled as being made from bamboo is usually rayon."
"Baumwollspinnerei Ermen & Engels The Baumwollspinnerei Ermen & Engels is a former cotton mill in Engelskirchen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. It is now part of the LVR Industrial Museum. Engelskirchen is midway between Köln and Olpe, today served by the A4 autobahn. In 1840 it was a quiet village on the banks of the Agger (river), a tributary of the Sieg (river). In Bergisches Land it is 54 km south east of Barmen (Wuppertal). This put it in the heart of the North European Textile belt. Friedrich Engels from Barmen, was the father of Friedrich Engels who worked with Karl Marx on"
"or ""Points""; another was called ""Ragged Leaf"" or ""Saw Tooth Edge""; another was based on pine needles in winter. Designed by the German company Marquardt & Schulz, several patterns were developed and tested by the German military. The pattern named ""Flecktarn B"" was chosen as the final pattern for use. The word flecktarn is a composite formed from the German words ""Fleck"" (spot, blot, patch or pattern) and ""Tarnung"" (camouflage). The Bundeswehr kept its green combat dress throughout the 1980s, however, while trials were conducted. ""Flecktarn"" was only widely introduced in 1990 in a newly reunited Germany. In Germany, the"
"Färberwaid (dye woad) towns of Erfurt, Gotha, Tennstedt, Arnstadt and Langensalza had their own charters. In Erfurt, the woad-traders gave the funds to found the University of Erfurt. Traditional fabric is still printed with woad in Thuringia, Saxony and Lusatia today: it is known as ""Blaudruck"" (literally, ""blue print(ing)""). Medieval uses of the dye were not limited to textiles. For example, the illustrator of the ""Lindisfarne Gospels"" used a woad-based pigment for blue paint. The dye chemical extracted from woad is indigo, the same dye extracted from ""true indigo"", ""Indigofera tinctoria"", but in a lower concentration. Following the European discovery"
"Lederhosen Lederhosen (; , ""leather breeches""; singular in German usage: ""Lederhose"") are breeches made of leather; they may be either short or knee-length. The longer ones are generally called ""Bundhosen"" or ""Kniebundhosen"". Once common workwear across Central Europe, they are now considered a folk costume associated particularly with Bavaria and Austria. Formerly, lederhosen were worn for hard physical work; they were more durable than a fabric garment. Today, they are mostly worn as leisurewear. Today, lederhosen and dirndl attire is common at Oktoberfest events around the world. Lederhosen were once widespread among men of the Alpine and surrounding regions, including"
"the name ""kannabis"" was due to its historically more recent drug use, starting from the south, around Iran, whereas non-THC varieties of hemp are older and prehistoric. Another possible source of origin is Assyrian ""qunnabu"", which was the name for a source of oil, fiber, and medicine in the 1st millennium BC. Cognates of hemp in other Germanic languages include Dutch ""hennep"", Danish and Norwegian ""hamp"", German ""Hanf"", and Swedish ""hampa"". Hemp is used to make a variety of commercial and industrial products including rope, textiles, clothing, shoes, food, paper, bioplastics, insulation, and biofuel. The bast fibers can be used"
"Baumwollspinnerei Hammerstein The Baumwollspinnerei Hammerstein was a cotton mill which had accompanying weaving sheds, located in the area now known as Wuppertal, Germany. It was the largest of its type in Bergisches Land and was owned by the Jung family between 1835 and 1869, when it also included a textile school. The name Hammerstein can be traced to the in Vohwinkel, now part of Wuppertal, Germany. Wuppertal in its present borders was formed in 1929 by merging the early industrial settlements of Barmen and Elberfeld with Vohwinkel, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg, Langerfeld, and Beyenburg. The initial name of the town, ""Barmen-Elberfeld"", was"
"almost every application normally filled by leather, excepting items like footwear that were repeatedly subjected to flex wear and/or moisture. Under these conditions ""Presstoff"" tended to delaminate and lose cohesion. Presstoff Presstoff (also Preßstoff or Pressstoff) is the German-language term for a type of ""ersatz"" or artificial leather used during the first half of the 20th century. Made of specially layered and treated paper pulp, ""Presstoff"" was durable and easily adapted to be used in place of leather, which under wartime conditions was rationed. First invented in the 19th century, it gained its widest use in Germany during the Second"